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Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
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Many people profess to believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing, benevolent God. Yet psychological data shows…
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How to Humbly Disagree
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People like to argue, especially Philosophy Talk listeners! But no matter how hard we try…
Cognitive Bias
December 15, 2019
Aristotle thought that rationality was the faculty that distinguished humans from other animals. However, psychological…
The Value of a College Education
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Existentialism
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Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these…
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